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... was a child. Watching a Grecian or Hawaiian sunset. Watching Aida in the Roman stadium in Verona. And there were so many times with Arline, just ho... ...s in the same society these customs may differ somewhat, for example from Catholics to Jews or from businessmen to government workers. Values are co... ... sexual conduct or life and death issues. And while it is often used in a religious sense, such as that God has commanded it, I will use it more in ... ...ants to kill the infidels. Or he might do it because he wants to live in a religious society governed by the religious laws of Sharia. ―It w... ...ossibilities and explain them in their decisions. A medical ethicist at a Catholic hospital will often have a quite different decision on what is et... ...re a monotheist. If you believe in many gods, like the ancient Greeks and Romans, you are a polytheist. ―A second type of one god belief is ... ...ot turn the other cheek. This continued into the Fifteenth Century and the Spanish Inquisition. It wasn‘t officially ended until the mid-Nineteenth C... ...poll in 1826. Six years after his execution the queen mother declared the Spanish Inquisition finished—after 354 years. ―You don‘t hear as mu... ...is not very people-friendly for more than half of our global brothers and sisters. ―The older idea that children are essential for a woman‘s...

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................................................................... 52 2 RELIGIOUS TERRORISM .......................................................... ... ―Cruelty to children is a universal in every land and every social class. Religious, and non-religious, rich and poor, educated and ignorant—all suc... ...s top newsmen? His dad worked two jobs for many years so that Tim and his sisters could get university educations. And Con, didn‘t your dad teach da... ... education in Europe, the U.S. or Russia. But Americans are following the Catholic idea which is still officially pushing for more births. Pope Paul... ...arming and protect the planet‘s ecology. And many Americans, not only the Catholics, follow the Pope‘s ideas with our highest birthrates ever—well o... ... been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions may not have reduced th... ...his world so that they could unite with God. And you 50 know that our Roman Catholic priesthood is celibate, as are our nuns and brothers. So the... ... that there are a million words in English and a half million in Chinese. Spanish has 275,000. It is no wonder that they are the three major language... ... English as an elective language, just as they can take French, Mandarin, Spanish, Arabic or Hindi. Several countries have copied our approach to Si...

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...583 The Undead and Human Laughter Pg 1585 The Undead and Vlad Pg 1587 The Religious Sale of Indulgences Pg 1589 Darwin’s Natural Selection and ... ...e constant of the speed of light as a holy Tabernacle, as some kind of sacred religious icon. The only reason that the speed of light is ‘constant’... ...h collided and split and became two beating hearts. This is also the reason Romance exists. The beating heart of the 3-dimensional Universe comes ... ...e audacity of it. The fact that they were the underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to... ...a so exactly it is amazing. Every major migration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a ... ...ectonic plates arrived in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely n... ...ged thousands and millions of children… Take the cases of rape and sodomy Catholic Priests have been convicted of recently in America. Has this ... ...psyche that prevents them from being logical, or doing the right thing. If Catholic Priests have been convicted of so many rapes and sodomy charge... ...e an insane bubble of unreal fantasy. Your siblings, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, mother, father. etc… all plotting against each other and aga...

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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...ames A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publica... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James, the Pennsyl... ...URE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS Aes- thetic elements in religion—Contrast of Catholicism and Protestantism— Sacrifice and Confession— Prayer— Religion h... ... sexuality. It reminds one, so crudely is it often employed, of the famous Catholic taunt, that the Reformation may be best understood by remem- berin... ...l these writers; but how devoid of passion or exultation the spirit of the Roman Emperor is! Compare his fine sentence: “If gods care not for me or my... ...just as the first Christians were accused of indulgence in or- gies by the Romans. It is probable that there never has been a century in which the del... ...autobiographies, or other individual documents. Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic who flour- ished—or rather who existed, for there was little... ...me so good a monk that if any one asked him the number of his brothers and sisters, he had to reflect and count them over before replying. A Father as... ...vely strong minds and characters we find quite opposite results. The great Spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ec- stasy as far as it has often ...

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...ore about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consents to spare them the flowery epithets of ancient criticism; he contents himself with wishing not to be in their skin, for he wo...

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...................... 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF THE NUNS OF POISSY ................................................................ 24 HOW THE CHATEAU D?AZAY CAME TO BE BUILT............................................................ 37 THE FALSE COURTESAN ......................

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...range Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanish jargon, introduced by foreigners, so that a poor writer has plenty ... ...y of Anjou, the country people are very faith- ful servants to our Holy of Catholic religion, and none of them will lose his portion of paradise for l... ...cholastic ties which united him to the emperor, that the eldest son of the Catholic Church was concerned in the af- fair, and was good enough to send ... ...majesty of royal love. But recov- ering his courage he began to defend the Spanish ladies, de- claring that in Castile alone was love properly underst... ...hat in Castile alone was love properly understood, because it was the most religious place in Christendom, and the more fear the women had of damning ... ...atisfied with a tenth of them. Then the abbey was reformed, and these holy sisters were deprived of the little happiness and liberty which they had en... ...d himself to be deceived by certain chroniclers, since the archives of the Roman Empire make no mention of an acquisition of this kind. I am angry wit... ... prettiness, and gentle nature, be- cause these rare advantages received a religious lustre from her supreme innocence, sweet modesty, and chaste educ... ...range with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the learned god cal...

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...you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits ...

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...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..................

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... equal opportunity University. Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER I... ...s History of England by Charles Dickens CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS IF YOU LOOK AT A M AP of the World, you will see, in the left ha... ...on nobles were in the habit of going on journeys which they supposed to be religious; and, once, he had stayed for some time in Paris. Learning, howev... ... skin sackcloth covered with dirt and vermin (for it was then thought very religious to be very dirty), flogged his back to punish himself, lived chie... ...ndly league with the Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany, and gave them his two sisters in marriage. War with France was immediately renewed, and the Perpe... ...then in his fifteenth year, was married to Catherine, the daughter of the Spanish monarch, with great rejoicings and bright prospects; but in a very ... ...had recovered from his grief, he thought it a pity that the fortune of the Spanish Princess, amounting to two hundred thousand crowns, should go out o... ...some Protestant prisoners for denying the Pope’s doctrines, and some Roman Catholic prisoners for denying his own supremacy. Still the people bore it,... ... who inclined to the Protestant opinions, and whose husband being a fierce Catholic, turned her out of his house. She came to London, and was consid ...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought abou...

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...ty university. 3 Balzac The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac IN A SPANISH CITY on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of t... ...an. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Eu- rope for that matter, was eithe... ...e across kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipl... ...ss kingdom after kingdom during his meteor life. In the minds of the Roman Catholic world, the convent stood out pre-eminent for a stern discipline wh... ...e detachment of the soul from all earthly things, which is demanded by the religious life, albeit on the continent of Europe there are many convents m... ...r storm or gales of wind. The church itself, built by the munificence of a Spanish family, is the crowning edifice of the town. Its fine, bold front g... ... action, a man who all his life long had 6 The Duchesse de Langeais lived romances instead of writing them, a man pre-eminently a Doer, was sure to b... ...that the General had built his hopes of gaining some information as to the sisters in the convent; he was quite unaware how absolutely the Carmelites ... ...or the time necessary to carry out his plans. The General, nothing if not “catholic and monarchical,” took occasion to inform himself of the hours of ...

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...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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... of exposing a life in mere gaiety of heart. Such was the gallantry of the Spanish knight who, while Fernando and Isabel lay before the Moorish city o... ...nso de Ojeda, who figured in 7 Yo n g e like manner upon the tower of the Spanish cathedral. The same daring afterwards carried him in the track of C... ...t from mouth and nose, have remained even till our own times to show how a Roman soldier did his duty. In like manner the last of the old Spanish infa... ...f those very native corps who were advancing to massacre him. This was the Roman sentry’s firmness, more voluntary and more glorious. Nor 10 A Book o... ...ps to make heroism’. Both tales were presented before them in their solemn religious tragedies, and the noble poetry in which they were recounted by t... ...ts. He had collected an army, and was come to take leave of his father and sisters; and at the same time to entreat his sisters to take care that, if ... ...er, and there preformed the regular rites. The Gauls, seeing that it was a religious cer- emony, let him pass through them untouched, and he re- turne... ..., Philip II., who wished to be con- sidered as the prime champion of Roman Catholic Christendom, and who alone had the power of assisting him. The Duk... ...in the year 1631, in the midst of the long Thirty Years’ Was between Roman Catholics and Protestants, which finally decided that each state should hav...

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...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsy... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylva- nia State Univ... ...ng similar figures, almost every day, reclining 22 The Marble Fawn on the Spanish steps, and waiting for some artist to invite them within the magic ... ...oves and the angels for your nearest neighbors. I should not wonder if the Catholics were to make a saint of you, like your namesake of old; especiall... ...o had come joyfully for- ward to greet her friend. “You must not call me a Catholic. A Christian girl—even a daughter of the Puritans—may surely pay h... ...All that she would henceforth attempt and that most reverently, not to say religiously was to catch and reflect some of the glory which had been shed ... ...cture gets its immortality. Hilda was no such machine as this; she wrought religiously, and therefore wrought a miracle. It strikes us that there is s... ...ly! I love you still! You were to me as a younger sister; yes, dearer than sisters of the same blood; for you and I were so lonely, Hilda, that the wh...

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...f the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the centre of which reclines the noble and most pathetic figure of the Dying Gladiator, just sinking into his death-swoon. Around the walls stand the Antinous, the Amazon, the Lycian Apollo, the Juno; all famous productions of antique sculpture, and still shining ...

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...g side,—the side that comes out in the “Contes Drolatiques,” which are the romantic and epicu- rean chronicle of the old manors and abbeys of this re-... ... rich and powerful, till it was known at last as one of the most luxurious religious houses in Christendom, with kings for its titular abbots (who, li... ... attain solemnity; for the whole place is strangely vulgar and garish. The Catholic church, as churches go to-day, is certainly the most spec- tacular... ... yond the garden are the other buildings of the Convent,— where the placid sisters keep a school,—a test, doubt- 15 Henry James less, of placidity. T... ...present, indeed, when once you have caught a glimpse of the stout, serious Romanesque tower,—which is not high, but strong,— you feel that the buildin... ...y manners which (for whatever other teachings it may be respon- sible) the Catholic church so often instils into its func- tionaries. I have never see... ...e left, rises the famous winding stair- case (plausibly, but I believe not religiously, restored), which even the ages which most misused it must vagu... ...nces of Carcassonne, which was one of the bulwarks of their kingdom on the Spanish quarter; and from this time forth, being regarded as impregnable, t... ...f Ferdinand V., King of Aragon,—an episode terminated, by the death of the Spanish prince, within a year. She was twenty-two years regent of the Nethe...

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...e remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them,...

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...e rather a family record than a novel. Formerly the Muse of the historical romance was an inde- pendent and arbitrary personage, who could compress ti... ...istorical outline like a map, showing to what incidents the memoirs of the Sisters of Ribaumont have to conform themselves. When Henry IV. succeeded i... ...other, Anne of Austria—a pi- ous and well-meaning, but proud and ignorant, Spanish Prin- cess—who pinned her faith upon Mazarin with helpless and excl... ...ets. 6 Stray Pearls The Queen-Regent was enraged through all her despotic Spanish haughtiness at such resistance. She tried to step in by the arrest ... ... English doc- trine is no heresy, and that the Church is a true Church and Catholic, though, as my home and my duties lie here, I re- main where I was... ...g our life and its inconveniences endurable is to give them a colouring of romance.’ I did not understand her then, but I have often since thought of ... ...n said of my position in its secular aspect, and the Abbe Bonchamps in its religious point of view. So I bade my mother good-night, and went to see ho... ...d be against our own. The English Church claims to be a branch of the true Catholic Church, and there are those among the Gallicans who are ready to a... ...o admit her claim. Harry Merrycourt, who was altogether a political, not a religious rebel, would gladly have kept Lord Walwyn com- pany; but it was n...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ...o had, he said, many difficulties to contend with, he con- tinued with the Romans, passed to England and the right method, which speedily became the w... ...as an only child and had never been bullied and laughed at by brothers and sisters. Her mother having died when she was eleven, two aunts, the sisters... ...iting and asking to be caught. I’m not exactly a Protestant, and I’m not a Catholic, but I could almost pray for the days of popery to come again—beca... ...ar tone of voice, “I’m sure Miss Vinrace, now, has secret leanings towards Catholicism,” she had no idea what to answer, and Helen could not help laug... ...uphrosyne now floated. Half-drawn up upon the beach lay an equal number of Spanish galleons, unmanned, for the country was still a virgin land behind ... ...tuguese fathers wed Indian mothers, and their children intermarry with the Spanish. Although they get their ploughs from Manchester, they make their c... ...taken over a Spanish man-of-war, and had seen a great many processions and religious festivals, which were so beautiful that Mrs. Ambrose couldn’t con... ...aunt called Rachel, who put the life of Father Damien into verse. She is a religious fanatic—the result of the way she was brought up, down in Northam...

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... him to aver that the letter—if such it were—was neither Scottish, French, Spanish, nor High or Low Dutch. He looked at it in all directions, and shoo... ...re and two large tankards had been filled with Xeres sack, cap- tured in a Spanish ship, “the only good thing that ever came from Spain,” quoth the sa... ...Talbot, of the Herbert blood, wife to the heir, was present with two young sisters-in-law, Lady Grace, daughter to the Earl, and Mary, daughter to the... ...forth Antony Babington, declaiming— “Great Queen Zenobia am I, The Roman Power I defy. At my Palmyra, in the East, I rule o’er every man... ...t, I rule o’er every man and beast” Here was an allusion couched in the Roman power, which Master Antony had missed, or he would hardly have uttere... ...ny had missed, or he would hardly have uttered it, since he was of a Roman Catholic family, though, while in the Earl’s household, he had to conform o... ...turned Mistress Jean. “Such a thing would be a miracle in a loyal Scottish Catholic’s wean, let alone an English heretic’s.” 124 Un... ...ew), she would be out of reach, and given up to influences, both moral and religious, which they deeply distrusted; also to a fate loom- ing in the fu... ...had a great compassion for them, deprived, as she said, of the alms of the religious houses, and flogged or branded if hunger forced them into beggary...

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...Contents MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. ..........................................

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...hey are described as merely deaf to the lessons of experience, and as too “romantic” in their expectations. The very opposite is, to my thinking, thei... ... The very opposite is, to my thinking, their criminal reproach. He that is romantic errs usually by too much elevation. He violates the standard of re... ...of arms. I am not meaning, however, to utter any opinion what- ever on the religious position of the two great parties. It is suffi- cient for entire ... ...en authorized by the ex- *“Merciful bloodshed”—In reading either the later religious wars of the Jewish people under the Maccabees, or the ear- lier u... ... knows best; and the Dream, I say again, is the responsible party. 4. “The Spanish Nun.”* —There are some narratives, which, though pure fictions from... ... of the heroine, and from the unsettled state of society at that period in Spanish America, that a reader the most credulous would at times be startle... ...re, and as it specially affected these two young women that virtually were sisters, any question of precedency in power or display , when brought into... ... rolls of chivalry,—were not excluded, though it was pretty evident that a Catholic zeal had pre- sided in forming the collection. For, together with ... ...lory of his short career was proclaimed in the ungen- erous exultations of Catholic Rome from Vienna to Madrid, and the individual heroism in the lame...

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... view its bonds, For I will never feel them?— Italy! Thy late reviving Roman soul desponds Beneath the lie this State thing breathed o’er th... ...l be much to pity, So says the proverb — and I quite agree; Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty, Cadiz perhaps — but that you soon ... ...ayer,’ And Greek—the alphabet — I ‘m nearly sure; She read some French romances here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; ... ...here and there, Although her mode of speaking was not pure; For native Spanish she had no great care, At least her conversation was obscure;... ...undred souls Had left their bodies; and what ‘s worse, alas! When over Catholics the ocean rolls, They must wait several weeks before a mass... ...breath, You hardly could perceive when he was dead. He died as born, a Catholic in faith, Like most in the belief in which they ‘re bred, ... ... Upon all legal objects of possession, And not the least so when they are religious, Which doubles what they think of the transgression: With... ...t at elbow peer, or desperate dandy, The watchful mothers, and the careful sisters (Who, by the by, when clever, are more handy At making matc... ... 308 Next to the making matches for herself, And daughters, brothers, sisters, kith or kin, Arranging them like books on the same shelf, ...

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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...nd poorest gentle- men of France: he was well-made, but very swarthy, with Spanish features, had a charming voice, played the guitar and lute very wel... ...ne or other of the two Dukes, fifth of a little party, composed of the two sisters and the two husbands,—with a bell upon the table, in order to dispe... ...des Logis in the royal house- hold: he arrived at that office by a perfect romance. He was one of the best made men in France, and was much in favour ... ...ed no anger. He wrote in return to me, and said, I was not ignorant that a Roman Emperor had said, “I love treason but not traitors;” but that, as for... ...leasantry, thought it would be a good joke to empty his snuff-box, full of Spanish snuff, into a large glass of wine, and to make Santeuil drink it, i... ...ch would be read with more plea- sure if there were less spite against the Catholic religion, and less passion against the King. With those exceptions... ... would have been difficult to have found two instructors so opposed to the Catholics and to France, or so well suited to the King as teachers of his s... ...ut was of an impetuous spirit, and soon began to chafe under the yoke of a religious life. He 205 Saint-Simon determined, therefore, to set himself f... ...l laughed at this, we ad- mired the profound instruction of a discreet and religious King, who considered it better not to believe in God than to be a...

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...ater times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to wh...

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...is it necessary to furnish any detailed account of our author’s political, religious, and philosophic axioms and systems, his paradoxes and his errors... ...ot only more celebrated but more opulent every year. It, is one of the few romances written in the epistolary form that do not oppress the reader with... ...my mother’s brother, Gabriel Bernard, fell in love with one of my father’s sisters; she had no objection to the match, but made the marriage of his si... ...elf. Every night, after supper, we read some part of a small collection of romances which had been my mother’s. My father’s design was only to improve... ... have pursued; but it should be observed that though M. de Pontverre was a religious man, he was not a virtuous one, but a bigot, who knew no virtue e... ...n to lament. The king, who was fond of appearing a zealous promoter of the Catholic faith, took her under his protection, and complimented her with a ... ...former faith, but no inclination to return to it. She not only died a good Catholic, but truly lived one; nay, I dare affirm (and I think I have had t... ...d for her. When she drew near me, with her dried black snout, smeared with Spanish snuff, it was with the utmost difficulty that I could refrain from ... ...iness of those I love to my own pleasures. At length, weary of playing the Spanish lover, and having no guitar, I determined to write to Mademoiselle ...

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...ish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. T...

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... clerk, address here. Taken sister’s girl, died last year, go to Europe, two sisters, quite independent.’ Over that my father and I have scarcely stop... ... is to one of my aunts. There there was a question as to whose the two other sisters were; they are probably two of my late aunt’s daughters. But who’... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ... and innocent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, decorated with old Spanish altar lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his... ...entleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house. The room was, however, less sombre than our indications ... ...hat’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a comfortable little fortun... ... he had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The convent is a great institution; we... ...d, a collection of wax flowers under glass, and a series of en gravings from religious pictures on the walls. On the other occasion Isabel had thought...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... in general, to these restless appeals was the rather grim admonition that romantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer th... ...lights, and of as many different colours, if possible, as the rockets, the Roman candles and Catherine- wheels of a “pyrotechnic display,” would be em... ...lerk, address here. Taken sister’s girl, died last year, go to Europe, two sisters, quite inde- pendent. ’ Over that my father and I have scarcely sto... ...of a Lady of my aunts. Then there was a question as to whose the two other sisters were; they are probably two of my late aunt’s daughters. But who’s ... ...nno- cent voice. He had some charming rooms in Paris, deco- rated with old Spanish altar-lace, the envy of his female friends, who declared that his c... ...tleman was seated in company with a young girl and two good sisters from a religious house. The room was, however, less sombre than our indications ma... ...t’s the positive side? What’s the virtuous? What have you got besides your Spanish 376 The Portrait of a Lady lace and your Dresden teacups?” “I’ve a... ...e had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The con- vent is a great institution; we...

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...was agreed that a party of us should land for half-an-hour, and taste real Spanish chocolate on Spanish ground. We fol- lowed Lieutenant Bundy, but hu... ...er and storey to another, till we arrived at that apartment where the real Spanish chocolate was finally to be served out. All these rooms were as cle... ...omp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-nosed emperor, in a Roman habit, waving his bronze baton on his broad-flanked brazen charger. W... ...f the 13 Thackeray time. Who can respect a simpering ninny, grinning in a Roman dress and a full-bottomed wig, who is made to pass off for a hero? or... ...ck which has an air at all picturesque or romantic; there is a plain Roman Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan arch... ...en years’ classical education, had kept me at home with my dear thir- teen sisters, it is probable I should have liked this country of Attica, in sigh... ...ard conduct was more touching, whose sincerity was more evident, and whose religious feeling seemed more deep, real, and reasonable. 109 Thackeray On... ...e it is impossible for us to comprehend the source and nature of the Roman Catholic devotion. I once went into a church at Rome at the request of a Ca... ...e. But I have never been able to edify myself with their devotion; and the religious outpourings of Lamartine and Chateaubriand, which we have all bee...

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... his first wife’s grave. Yes, you may smile, Maurice, as if I were talking romance; but only look at him, poor man! Did you ever see any one so utterl... ...is one of his charms in her eyes.’ ‘So it may be, as a sort of interesting romance. I am sure I pity the poor man heartily, but to see her at three-an... ...l tune those voices to some- thing less unlike your own.’ As he spoke, the sisters appeared in the full and conscious rustling of new lilac silk dress... ...if she had known how to set about it. ‘I suppose Miss Belmarche is a Roman Catholic,’ she said, wishing to account for this wonderful ignorance, and a... ...ce of all goodness; but any visible acceptance of personal applications of religious teaching had not yet been accomplished. Gradually all cleared up ... ...rs, and was left to an unlim- ited appetite for books, chiefly poetry. Our religious instruc- tion was a nullity, and I am only surprised that the res... ...er pined away and died of grief. My daughter and granddaugh- ter go to the Catholic burying-ground at Hadminster on her fete day, to dress her grave w... ... off’ ‘I declare, when we overtook you in the street, she looked a perfect Spanish princess, in her black robes and great shady hat. You ought always ... ... christened; and then followed a string of mighty names, long enough for a Spanish princess, beginning with Belraven!!! Lucy Dusautoy’s dreary conditi...

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...re is more than the ordinary height above her, and who, now that her first romantic admiration of his lofty bearing has worn off, and her fretful litt... ...here was a dish on the table. Mrs. Doris Foray was the eldest of the three sisters of the baronet, a florid affable woman, with fine teeth, exceedingl... ... “She’s a lady, as good as the best of ‘em. I don’t care about their being Catholics—the Desb’roughs o’ Dorset are gentlemen. And she’s good for the p... ...arian (an imitation of his cousin Austin), little better than a month: the religious, somewhat longer: the religious-propagandist (when he was for con... ... handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bride; where he walked in a realm vaster and more gorgeous than... ...y who educate their children—I should prefer a girl without broth- ers and sisters—as a Christian damsel should be educated— say, on the model of my s... ...re, I suppose,” said Adrian. “How is it I don’t see her at church?” “She’s Catholic, or some think,” said Molly. “Her father was, and a leftenant. She... ...ness on my mind, Bran- don.” “Yes! well! in that case … Or if of different religious per- suasions”… “She is a Catholic!” Mrs. Doria joyfully interjec... ...made of: such are young gentlemen made of!” After this trifling she sang a Spanish ballad sweetly. He was in the mood when imagination intensely vivif...

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...ion of 1830, Guerande is still a town apart, essentially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix hav... ...erior to the latter in antiquity and for- tune as the T rojans were to the Romans. The Guaisqlains (the name is also spelled in the olden time du Glai... ... with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clover, while Chris- tian art is fait... ...ho recalled themselves to her remembrance by many presents. Several of her sisters, married to great wealth, took enough interest in Calyste to wish t... ...ht be rendered worthless. This human masterpiece of virtuous and noble and religious education, Calyste, might be destroyed; the happiness of his life... ...istences which cannot be judged like ordinary lives.” “My child,” said the religious Fanny, “nothing can excuse a woman for not conducting herself as ... ...ort of literary revolution when the great question of the classics and the romanticists palpitated on all sides,—in the newspapers, at the clubs, at t... ... Madame des T ouches, and there she settled with the little girl and three sisters of her convent. The populace of Nantes, during the last days of the... ...singing with a Brabancon seigneur, while a Negro beside them poured golden Spanish wine into a goblet, and the old housekeeper in the background arran...

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...zjocelyn of the murmurs which he had provoked, as he guessed the true secret of his victory. In his eyes, it was the triumph of merit over prejudice, and Mrs. Frost espoused the same gratifying view, though ascribing much to her nephew?s activity, and James himself, flushed with hope and success, was not likely to dissent....

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...r from feeling as if she were doing wrong, or setting a bad example to her sisters. They know nothing of it; but Walter, who learnt it no one knows ho... ...ind friends—to know that I had acted a deceit, nor to set an example to my sisters for which they might not understand the justification. I know that ... ...for her a particle, a shred of what I do for Mary, it was a mere fiction—a romance, an impossibility.’ ‘I do not understand you, Louis. Why did you no... ...oothing flow of Lope de Vega’s beautiful devo- tional sonnets, in majestic Spanish, in Louis’s low, sweet voice. 23 Yo n g e CHAPTER III CHAPTER III ... ...king of yours. What is to become of Mary with such a man as that? and this Spanish woman, who, if she does not deserve all that has been said of her, ... ...real facts, her wrath would have been extreme—a mere child, a foreigner, a Roman Catholic, a nun! Her horror would have known no bounds, and she would... ...acts, her wrath would have been extreme—a mere child, a foreigner, a Roman Catholic, a nun! Her horror would have known no bounds, and she would, perh... ... been making various reforms, introducing new studies, mak- ing a point of religious instruction, and meditating on a course of lectures on history, t... ...own depart- ment, the school. He was astonished at his boys’ deficiency in religious instruction, and started a plan for collecting them for some teac...

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...sound sleep. The malicious Achille Pigoult had urged all present to listen religiously to the young orator, who was now floundering in his phrases and... ...olution. Attached to the Simeuse family, and consequently, good 39 Balzac Catholics, the Beauvisage father and mother desired to have their son bapti... ...tness, and the manners of a petted child, all that her person presented of romantic charm. Still, a husband capable of reforming her education and eff... ...of Arcis and her future expectations as Lady Croesus, and would spin her a romance to end in true love and a marriage.” “That’s a very pretty idea!” c... ...ntre, and is republican without wanting a republic, he proclaims himself a Catholic, and sits astride the hobby of that party, namely,—liberty of educ... ... year—he has ideas about it.” “What ideas?” asked Emile Blondet. “Oh! that religious works ought not to be delivered over to the judgment of critics, ... ... to change the character of my statue, and, at the present moment, the two sisters no longer resemble each other. Nevertheless, as I did not wish that... ...y rising. In fact, his answer is irresistible. The convent of the Ursuline sisters—heavens and earth! that can’t be the rendezvous of makers of false ... ...onate emo- tions except those of the family. With a beauty that was partly Spanish, she had eyes which her friend Louise de Chaulieu declared could ri...

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...as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself m... ... just as often very loose. He had evidently a good colloquial knowledge of Spanish, but apparently not much more. It never seems to occur to him that ... ...likely to have a strong feeling on the subject of the sham chivalry of the romances. It gives a point, too, to what 10 Don Quixote he says in more th... ...Part of “Don Quixote” alone proves a vast amount of miscellaneous reading, romances of chivalry, ballads, popular poetry, chronicles, for which he had... ...se the ransom money, the father disposing of all he possessed, and the two sisters giving up their marriage portions. But Dali Mami had found on Cerva... ...no doubt, is that of all the books in the world, “Don Quixote” is the most catholic. There is something in it for every sort of reader, young or old, ... ... committing an assault upon priests or things of the Church, which, like a Catholic and faithful Christian as I am, I respect and revere, but upon pha... ...eaven than knights-errant.” “That,” said Don Quixote, “is because those in religious orders are more numerous than knights.” “The errants are many,” s... ...very?” “They gave me two,” replied the page; “but just as when one quits a religious community before making profession, they strip him of the dress o...

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...d me to send him Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue would be taught, and it was his wish that the book to be rea... ...it even the semblance of an immodest word, or a thought that is other than Catholic.” “To write in any other way,” said Don Quixote, “would not be to ... ...er of knight-errantry! O shining light of arms! O honour and mirror of the Spanish nation! may God Almighty in his infinite power grant that any perso... ... that I believe, as I always do, firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of t... ...I believe, as I always do, firmly and truly in God, and all the holy Roman Catholic Church holds and believes, and that I am a mortal enemy of the Jew... ...at the top; and it was from this that the emperor examined the building. A Roman gentleman stood by his side and explained to him the skilful construc... ...eaven than knights-errant.” “That,” said Don Quixote, “is because those in religious orders are more numerous than knights.” “The errants are many,” s... ...very?” “They gave me two,” replied the page; “but just as when one quits a religious community before making profession, they strip him of the dress o... ... all the world; and is so still, unless the envious fates and hard-hearted sisters three have cut for her the thread of life. But that they have not, ...

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...lift a stone without stooping. Into the body of the poor Tatars execrative Roman History intercalated an alphabetic letter; and so they continue Ta-r-... ...Daughter with him, refusing to quit him. Why, O Cazotte, wouldst thou quit romancing, and Diable Amoureux, for such reality as this? Poor old M. de So... ..., and old wavering weakness rous- ing itself once more—O my brothers, O my sisters! The famed and named go; the nameless, if they have an accuser. Nec... ... kind of genuine productive hope again. Doctrine of Fraternity, out of old Catholicism, does, it is true, very strangely in the vehicle of a Jean-Jacq... ...owledges, thoughts and things, which the French have, suddenly plump down; Catholicism, Classicism, Sentimentalism, Can- nibalism: all isms that make ... ...t widowed Dame de Fontenai, brown beautiful woman, daughter of Cabarus the Spanish merchant,—has softened the red bristly counte- nance; pleading for ... ...teous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile- colour? By Nemesis and the Fatal Sisters, it is Jourdan Coupe- tete! Him they have clutched, in these martia... ...risti Day 1792, the whole world, and Sovereign Authority itself, walked in religious gala, with a quite devout air;—Butcher Legendre, supposed to be i... ...and Host over the Western Scotch Whigs; Jamaica Planters got Dogs from the Spanish Main to hunt their Maroons with: France too is bescoured with a Dev...

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...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ation of this charming face was in the eyes, the iris of which, brown like Spanish tobacco and flecked with black, shone with golden reflections round... ...im— he was called respectfully Major Brigaut, the grade he had held in the Catholic army—spending his days and his eve- nings in the Lorrains’ parlor,... ...ublic spirit, exceeds in brilliancy of re- source and invention the ablest romance-writers. When the post gets hold of a letter, worth, to it, from th... ...s historical memories, its melancholy ruins, the gaiety of its valley, the romantic charm of its ravines filled with tangled shrubbery and wild- flowe... ...d bilious. Like a true Breton girl, cradled in the practices and poetry of Catholicism, Pierrette opened her heart and ears to the words of this impos... ..., with whom she sympathized deeply . The two spinsters loved each other as sisters. Mademoiselle Habert offered to take Pierrette into her school to s... ...of such a passion in the heart of an old maid who was also in the grasp of religious emotion, and he saw his way to rid himself of Pierrette and the c... ... doubt the life escaping her. The cure Peroux and Monsieur Habert, her two religious comforters, admired her saintly resigna- tion. Surely the seraphi...

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...ry suggestions, and though it was by no means the glowing orb of a hero of romance, you could find in it almost anything you looked for. Frigid and ye... ...y beau- tiful subject,” said the young lady. “The Madonna, yes; I am not a Catholic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a penc... ...tis- fied me.” 36 The American “You remind me of the heroes of the French romantic poets, Rolla and Fortunio and all those other insatiable gentlemen... ...h side, is of fabulous antiquity; her mother is the daughter of an English Catholic earl. Her father is dead, and since her widowhood she has lived wi... ... monu- ments and small, made the guide recite his lesson, lis- tened to it religiously, asked if there was nothing else to be seen in the neighborhood... ... then they put it on the shelf altogether.” 92 The American “Are you very religious?” asked Newman, in a tone which gave the inquiry a grotesque effe... ...I haven’t any house to call my own, or anything in the way of a family. My sisters are five thousand miles away, my mother died when I was a youngster... ...up some information afterwards,” said Newman, reassuringly. “You have some sisters?” asked old Madame de Bellegarde. “Yes, two sisters. Splendid women... ...f amiably saturnine cast; he had a very large thin nose, and looked like a Spanish picture. He appeared to think dueling a very per- fect arrangement,...

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...ate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consis...

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..................................................................................................... 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS....

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........... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORTHMEN...

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.................. 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ....................................................................................................................... 76 KATE?S PASSAGE OVER THE ANDES ...............................................................

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....................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN .................................................................. ...s, the more it conceals them; and for the very same reason: just as in the Roman amphitheatres, when they grew to the magnitude of mighty cities, (in ... ...s, could it have been said in a sufficient sense at that time that I was a religious man: yet, undoubtedly, I had all the foundations within me upon w... ...ne of unaffected piety; and thus far, at least, I might have been called a religious man, that in the simplic- ity of truth I could have exclaimed, ‘O... ... at stake upon their husbands’ safety, rarely indeed are able to take this Roman view of their duties. T o return to the narrative. Agnes had not, nor... ...ct. 76 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SP THE SPANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN ANISH NUN WHY IS IT THAT Adventur... ...r kept a hen-roost in such alarm as pussy kept the dormitory of the senior sisters; whilst the younger ladies were run off their legs by the eternal w... .... The night which succeeded was gloomy for both the representatives of his Catholic Majesty. It cannot be denied by the greatest of philosophers, that... ...rom the Pacific ocean. She, that was always prudent, packed up some of the Catholic king’s bis- cuit, as she had previously packed up far too little o...

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...s. With the far-away look in her eyes— which wasn’t, however, in the least romantic—I mean that she didn’t look as if she were seeing poetic dreams, o... ... town bull’s; it won’t matter whether they are Germans, Austrians, French, Spanish, or even Brazilians— they will be the Germans or Brazilians who tak... ...now,” she said, in her clear hard voice, “don’t you know that I’m an Irish Catholic?” 31 Ford Madox Ford V THOSE WORDS gave me the greatest relief th... ...d without making the stipulation that the children should be brought up as Catholics. And that, of course, was spiritual death to Leonora. I have give... ... had never undeceived him on that point. She thought it made her seem more romantic. No, Edward had no remorse. He was able to say to himself that he ... ...t did she enter another person’s house. For the rest of the time the seven sisters ran about in the neglected gardens between the unpruned espal- iers... ...is particular case it was very expensive. The mistress of the Grand Duke—a Spanish dancer of passionate appearance —singled out Edward for her glances... ...ho had advised her about the affair with La Dolciquita, and the one or two religious, who had guided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that ... ...ided her through life. The Colonel’s wife was at that time in Madeira; the religious she now avoided. Her visitors’ book had seven hundred names in it...

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... end of the fifteenth century. And, indeed, it is in the references in his romance to names, persons, and places, that the most certain and valuable e... ...iscon- duct and vice, or is he ever the apologist of these? Many poets and romance writers, under cover of a fastidious style, without one coarse expr... ...strument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming. Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be more easily understood. The Inquis... ...ook upon himself to develop and to add to, and in the attacks on the Roman Catholic Church. According to Jean Paul Rich- ter, Fischart is much superio... ...s death, John Ozell, translator on a large scale of French, Ital- ian, and Spanish authors, revised Motteux’s edition, which he published in five volu... ... be to find fault with and laugh at the members and the authorities of the Catholic Church, I protest that he did not compose it, for it was written l... ... wear, I will here make you a cardinal. What! do you use to pay ransoms to religious men? Y ou shall therefore have by-and-by a red hat of my giving. ... ...rod upon; therefore was it ordained, that if any man or woman entered into religious orders should by chance come within this new abbey, all the rooms... ...at future chance the Fates have ordained for him; for the Parcae, or Weird Sisters, do not twist, spin, or draw out a thread, nor yet doth Jupiter per...

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........................................................................................................ 26 CHAPTER IV I AM PLACED UNDER A POPISH PRIEST AND BRED TO THAT RELIGION.?VISCOUNTESS CASTLEWOOD .................................................................................................................................................... 36 CHAPTER V MY SUPERIORS ...

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.... She was maid of honor to the Queen Henrietta Maria; she early joined the Roman Church; her father, a weak man, following her not long after at Breda... ...r on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighb... ... was far from him to say that his Majesty’s Church was not a branch of the Catholic Church; upon which Father Holt used, 47 Thackeray according to hi... ...oper in the regiment: and he swore Harry to secrecy too, which vow the lad religiously kept, until he found that officers and privates were all taken ... ...r; not that any fault attaches to my lord, who is one of the best and most religious men in this king- dom.” And very likely she believed so. ’Tis str... ...e had it as an infant: it broke out in our house then; and when four of my sisters had it at home, two years before our marriage, I es- caped it, and ... ...nch, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue likewise, besides the ancient languages, of which, at least ... ..., if not much of the danger. He saw actually, and with his own eyes, those Spanish cavaliers and ladies whom he had beheld in imagination in that immo... ...man, with a wart upon her nose. But having been early taught a part of the Roman religion, he never had the horror of it that some Protestants have sh...

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...iness: yet did not go, the wound not proving poisoned. For his Majesty has religious faith; believes, at least in a Devil. And now a third peril; and ... ...s English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Catholicism—it was not till Catholicism itself, so far as Law could abolish... ...s what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Sing- ers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form the Spirit... ...n two opinions, is it not trying? He who would under- stand to what a pass Catholicism, and much else, had now got; and how the symbols of the Holiest... ...ium to the winter one. There are poutings and grudgings from the Sardinian Sisters-in-law (for the Princes too are wedded); little jealousies, which C... ... to help. Wondrous leather-roofed Floating-batteries, set afloat by French-Spanish Pacte de Famille, give gallant sum- mons: to which, nevertheless, G... ..., and salute the Young Spring. (Mercier, Tableau de Paris, ii. 51. Louvet, Roman de Faublas, &c.) Manifold, bright-tinted, glittering with gold; all t... ... Tricolor Flag; victorious, or to be victorious, in the cause of civil and religious liberty all over the world. Fauchet, we say, is the man for Te-De... ...pe. Where the carcase is, thither will the eagles gather. Think how many a Spanish Guzman, Martinico Fournier named ‘Fournier l’Americain,’ Engineer M...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head-master made a sign to us to sit down. Then, turning to the class-master, he said to ...

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...out any fire, taught him to drink off large draughts of rum and to jeer at religious processions. But, peaceable by nature, the lad an- swered only po... ...he oc- casion were some big girls of fourteen or sixteen, cousins or elder sisters no doubt, rubicund, bewildered, their hair greasy with rose pomade,... ...ed at first at the convent, she took plea- sure in the society of the good sisters, who, to amuse her, took her to the chapel, which one entered from ... ...hs of unexpected sweetness. In the evening, before prayers, there was some religious read- ing in the study. On week-nights it was some abstract of sa... ...w she listened at first to the sonorous lamenta- 33 Flaubert tions of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity! If her chil... ...head, and began smell- ing her bouquet. After supper, where were plenty of Spanish and Rhine wines, soups a la bisque and au lait d’amandes*, puddings... ...r Leon sang a barcarolle, and Madame Bovary , senior, who was godmother, a romance of the time of the Empire; finally, 79 Flaubert M. Bovary , senior... ...t and dangled for a moment over the silk. They were talking of a troupe of Spanish dancers who were expected shortly at the Rouen theatre. “ Are you g... ...olume slipped from her hands, she fancied herself seized with the fin- est Catholic melancholy that an ethereal soul could conceive. As for the memory...

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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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...nly busy causing him annoyance. Olga went out. Pierre stood looking at the sisters; then he bowed and said: “Then I will go to my rooms. Y ou will let... ...“Here is some sort of Key to the Mysteries that your Heloise has sent you. Religious! I don’t interfere with anyone’s belief... I have looked at it. T... ...ur letter of the 13th has given me great delight. So you still love me, my romantic Julie? Separation, of which you say so much that is bad, does not ... ...than the feelings which the beautiful eyes of a young man can inspire in a romantic and loving young girl like your- self. The news of Count Bezukhov’... ...or me... I will tell you the truth, Andrew ... is Father’s way of treating religious sub- jects. I don’t understand how a man of his immense in- telle... ... fashion. In the midst of a conversation that was started about Napoleon’s Spanish affairs, which they all agreed in approving, Prince Andrew began to... ... offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage. The Spaniards, through the Catholic clergy, offer praise to God for their victory over the French on t... ...ver the French on the fourteenth of June, and the French, also through the Catholic clergy, offer praise because on that same fourteenth of June they ... ... Salamanca, which was described by Crosart, a newly arrived Frenchman in a Spanish uniform. (This Frenchman and one of the German princes serving with...